Would A DAC Help Very Much?

look at the pure i-20 for 99 dollars. you will never listen to an ipod thru the headphone jack or it's on -board dac thru your stereo again. and to your question if you want to make an average cd player sound better or use computer audio my answer is yes. brw, i also use morrow cables thru out my system with mmgs and i think they are really nice.

You'll probably hear a good difference using a better source like a DAC. However, make sure you can get a digital signal out of your iPod before you buy a DAC. Very, very few items get the digital signal from iPods.

For a DAC and iPod dock 1 piece solution, look into the Peachtree iDAC. It's about $1k. Haven't heard it, so no comment. A lot of people like the Peachtree stuff, hence my recommending researching it.

HRT just released an iPod compatable DAC thing. Haven't heard HRT either, but a lot of people I know really like the sound for the dollar in their other stuff.

i guess i wasn't detailed about the pure i-20. it does get the digital data from the ipod and is a ipod authorized product . like kbarkamian wrote, very few ipod docks do this. the few i am aware of are the hrt, the wadia, the cambridgeaudio and the peachtree. the pure i-20 has a dac installed and the ability to bypass their dac and use the your seperate dac. it also has optical and digital coax out plus video out. the improvement i hear is better sound quality, better bass definition and sound like a good cd player not a compromised ipod.